A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 28, 2014

The year began like so many others had in the past with me as Principal of New Milford High School. Here are some professional highlights from 2014: Digital Leadership was published by Corwin on January 14, 2014. On July 9, 2014, I officially announced my decision to step down as Principal of New Milford High School.

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MARCH 10, 2013

Steve visited New Milford High School on Thursday February 28, 2013. NMHS routinely hosts visits from outside educators, schools, and organizations in an effort to provide insights on our initiatives. I reached out to Eric to gain insight into the technologically driven mindset that has encapsulated New Milford High School.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 27, 2013

The following post appeared on the blog of Robert Dillon. In this piece he describes what he saw at New Milford High School during his visit while the students were present the Friday before the Edscape Conference. There have been a thousand stories about the journey of New Milford High School toward being a connected school.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 27, 2014

The following post was written by Bill Brennan and originally appeared on Peter DeWitt''s Finding Common Ground blog found at Education Week. Speaking of journeys, today I traveled to New Jersey with my middle school principal, Luis Pena (@principalpena) and high school principal, Glen Zakian. Today was different.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 13, 2013

As the school year comes to an end at New Milford High School, I can’t help but begin to think about sustaining the many changes that have taken place over the past few years as well as identifying other areas where change is needed. Change educational leadership educational technology Innovation Opinion'

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Well, another year of writing has passed, and it was a big one as 2019 marked ten years since I began my blogging journey. For me, the push I needed came from Ken Royal, who, after hearing what we were doing at New Milford High School and then visiting, stated unequivocally that I had to share our story.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 23, 2012

As I sit here writing this post, I cannot help but reflect on the positive changes that have taken place at my school and with me professionally. Through connected learning and sharing, I have become better equipped to lead change at New Milford High School and to begin to transform the teaching and learning process.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 30, 2017

Three years later I became the Principal of New Milford High School. It was in this position that I really began to learn about effective leadership. We did this at my former school. As an author of six books, numerous articles, and a blog, I am dogged by a perception that I am a good writer.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 15, 2012

One of my goals when I present on leadership, change, and transformation is to inspire other school leaders to begin to blog. I remember years ago my initial hesitation to blog until Ken Royal encouraged me to submit a guest post on his blog at the time almost three years ago. I will let you know how it goes.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 28, 2011

There was even a comment on the Facebook page that I manage for my high school stating that I spend too much time on Twitter. Nor do they care to engage me in a discussion as to why I spend valuable time with Twitter or my blog. by Lyn Hilt Is Blogging Really Worth It? Let me first discuss blogging.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 17, 2011

I often talk about change whether it be through this blog or during presentations to various education groups. The transformation taking place at New Milford High School to create a 21st Century culture of teaching an learning would fit this bill. Change Leadership Students Stakeholders' A fantastic lesson in my eyes!

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 19, 2014

Regardless of whether the stories are being penned by myself, my staff, or the students of New Milford High School , we have done just that at NMHS. We have taken control of our public relations for our school and now actively promote all of the great work we are doing to prepare students for success in a global, digital world.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 11, 2012

The following is a guest blog post by Dr. Franklin Turner who recently visited my school. A few weeks ago, I made a commitment to visit schools that are using social media, smartphones, texting, and other digital technologies, as a vital part of daily classroom instruction.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 7, 2010

Currently the categories on this wiki include blogs, student leadership, technology integration, portfolios, learning through teaching, social networking, and authentic learning. I have proudly added examples from New Milford High School. Now it''s your turn! 21st Century Learning Change Innovation Wikis'

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

With each Facebook post, email, Instagram photo, comment on a blog, YouTube video, Skype call, etc. My advice is to set up alerts for your name as well as that of your school and/or district. you are leaving a trail that can be seen, searched, or tracked. The alert settings are much more robust than that of Google Alerts.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 28, 2011

I absolutely love to share what we are doing at New Milford High School through the lens that social media provides. As part of this program I was able to share my insight on change in education , which was published on the ASCD Inservice blog as well as ASCD Express. Once the conference began I hit the floor running.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 22, 2010

Last month I unveiled the first ever guest post on my blog written by one of my students. As my high school career winds down to only a few short days, I am forced to reflect upon my last 4 years at New Milford High School. One of my most rewarding experiences was my involvement in the Peer Leadership Program.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 2, 2016

The bottom line though is that the conversations and relationships that evolved thanks to a diversified network and enhanced intellectual bank unlocked leadership qualities hidden inside me. He pushed me to extend beyond the use of Twitter to share what was going on in my school through a blog.

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Digital Promise

JULY 15, 2021

I have been extremely fortunate to be a part of OTAN’s Digital Leadership Academy (DLAC ), first as a participant in 2016, and now as a coach to mentor other adult educators in meeting their program goals. The post Mentoring for Digital Leadership in California Adult Educators appeared first on Digital Promise.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 28, 2010

Late Thursday afternoon I looked at my Blackberry and saw an email from Filip Piasevloi, the student who wrote the amazing guest post entitled " A Student''s Perspective on Leadership ". Attached to his email was a document that contained his well thought out responses to comments on his blog post (see below).

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 22, 2010

The next week off will enable us to recharge our batteries and continue our efforts to make New Milford High School a model for innovation and student-centered learning. Arts & Letters, and Global Leadership. I would just like to take this minute to wish each and everyone of you a break filled with joy, peace, and rest.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

In July 2018, Digital Promise launched a new Maker Learning Leadership Cohort dedicated to professional learning, peer connections, and school transformation in the Pittsburgh region. Visit the Digital Promise Maker Learning Leadership Framework to access more resources and tools to support your work.

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Digital Promise

JULY 11, 2018

On Monday, July 9th, teachers and administrators from 10 schools gathered to kick off a year-long journey in the Maker Learning Leadership Cohort. Facilitated by Digital Promise and supported by the Grable Foundation, the cohort is composed of teachers and administrators from the following schools: Avalon Elementary School.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 6, 2010

This experience, combined with my Personal Learning Network (PLN) serve as driving forces to provide the very best learning opportunities for the students and staff of New Milford High School. Who knows, maybe now I will start an official blog using Google Blogger? innovation leadership change Google web2.0 reflection'

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Here are some of my favorite lessons and activities for teaching the executive branch in my high school Civics and Government class. Head over to this blog post where I share this activity in more detail. You can read more about this simulation in this blog post here. But first, lets go over what the branch does exactly.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 3, 2023

They changed my life, and we need more of them I think about where I would be if I didn’t have the support of my colleagues, mentors and leadership team and had instead left the profession. I think of my former students who brought their own children to the middle/high school I would later lead as a principal.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

Initiated by black church leaders, who had invited several trusted white clergymen and business leaders to work with them, this citizens committee were planning the integration of Belmonts schools and businesses. Later, when I reached high school, I talked with my father about how hed helped to locally implement the Brown decision.

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Digital Promise

JULY 16, 2019

Access to technology for all students is a major goal for many schools, companies, and organizations—yet access is only part of the equation. Once an educational technology (edtech) tool is in a school, the hard work is just beginning due to a number of potential hurdles and challenges that leadership and educators need to overcome.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 3, 2010

On a crisp, sunny Saturday morning in October, approximately 400 passionate educators congregated at New Milford High School for the Tri-State Educational Technology Conference (TSETC). New Milford High School alumnus Erica Hartman covered over 20 free tools that any teacher could easily use in the classroom.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

MARCH 3, 2024

Just know that if you don’t meet within your school day, your group won’t be able to take on nearly as many things. To create a program that is more than poster-making and pep assembly planning, check out this post where I lay out my three-part framework for creating a service leadership-centered program. No question.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 17, 2018

A ‘grand challenge’ for building-level leaders might be a leadership issue such as: turning around a low-achieving school; repairing a dysfunctional school staff culture; preparing future-ready graduates; meeting the needs of students with unique needs (including ELL/ESL, special education, gifted, transitory; etc.);

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cleveland City Schools. Columbus Municipal School District. DeKalb County School District. Edgecombe County Public Schools. Florence City Schools. Gulf Shores City Schools. Maine Township High School District 207. McComb School District. Mehlville School District.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Snapshots include Covina Valley School District in Covina, CA, where the CISCO Networking Academies allow high school students to study the latest networking, security, and cloud technologies. At Liberty 53 Public Schools in Liberty, Missouri, the “UnSchool Challenge” offers students personalized internship opportunities.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Part II: Transitioning from Whole Group to Small Group to Achieve Equity in Education The first blog in this series, “ Time Efficiency vs. Equity in Education ,” explored two major barriers teachers face when shifting from whole group, teacher-led, teacher-paced model to student-centered blended learning models.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 26, 2022

[this blog post is a follow-up response to the Twitter exchange with Van Schoales posted below]. I offer this longer-form blog post as an attempt to bypass the lack of nuance available in 280 Twitter characters. I don’t know if you had a chance to read my previous blog post, Much ado about NAEP , but I tried to make two key points.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 28, 2021

The Spanish translation of this blog post can be found below. The vision of Alberto Meléndez Torres High School is to develop the technological skills necessary for the 21st century, for students, teachers, and the community in general.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 25, 2021

Brizard succeeds Karen Cator in the role and will assume day-to-day leadership of Digital Promise while also joining its board of directors. Brizard is a fellow of the Broad Center, a fellow of the Pahara-Aspen Institute Education Fellowship, and a member of the Aspen Institute Global Leadership Network.

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